Construction of Cultivated Land Ecological Network Based on Supply and Demand of Ecosystem Services and MCR Model: A Case Study of Shandong Province, China

Yifan Xu, Yuepeng Liu, Qian Sun and Wei Qi ()
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Yifan Xu: College of Resource and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271018, China
Yuepeng Liu: College of Resource and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271018, China
Qian Sun: College of Resource and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271018, China
Wei Qi: College of Resource and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271018, China

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 9, 1-14

Abstract: The research on the ecological protection of cultivated land has gradually become a focus and frontier of cultivated land protection. Constructing an ecological network of a cultivated land system is important to improve the effect of cultivated land ecological protection. In this study, the supply-demand ratio of five ecosystem services was calculated from 2000 to 2020 in Shandong Province, a major grain-producing area in China. The morphological spatial pattern analysis (MSPA) model was used to construct the minimum cumulative resistance (MCR) model. The conclusions of the study are as follows: (1) the areas with a higher supply and demand ratio of various ecosystem services of cultivated land in Shandong Province are distributed in southern and southwestern areas. (2) The ecological source of cultivated land in Shandong Province has decreased by about 7000 km 2 from 2000 to 2020, and the fragmentation trend is obvious. (3) The total length of the ecological corridors is 798.5 km 2 . The majority of these corridors are located in central and southern Shandong. The ideas and conclusions of this study are important for the formulation of ecological protection policies for regional cultivated land systems.

Keywords: ecosystem services; MCR model; InVEST model; morphological spatial pattern analysis (MSPA) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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